CentOS - Dec 2008 - HAL Daemon failure on boot up

I've been having a problem for a while:  when booting, haldaemon will 
fail, leaving me without CD/DVD and floppy drives available.

Has anyone else had this kind of problem?  If so, can anyone suggest a 
solution?

Thanks for listening,

Dick

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Dick Roth wrote:
> I've been having a problem for a while:  when booting, haldaemon will
> fail, leaving me without CD/DVD and floppy drives available.
>
> Has anyone else had this kind of problem?  If so, can anyone suggest a
> solution?
>
> Thanks for listening,
>
> Dick
>
some more information would be helpful
what version of centos and hal
any fail reports

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 1:00 AM, Dick Roth <raroth7 at comcast.net>
wrote:
> I've been having a problem for a while:  when booting, >haldaemon
will > fail, leaving me without CD/DVD and >floppy drives available.
>
> Has anyone else had this kind of problem?  If so, can >anyone suggest a
> solution?
Your problem may not be with HAL. I have had similar, intermittent
problems, recently, with various symptoms, including that K3b could
not find my CD-RW drive or media in it. I just finished writing to
CD-R media with K3b with that CD-RW drive. In the case of my Desktop,
I now know that the motherboard is damaged. Since you wrote that you
have a problem with more than one piece of HW, I hope in your case it
isn't the motherboard. You can run Diagnostics on the HW, which I did
last Sunday, with the Dell Diagnostics for this box, but my HW got a
clean bill of health, since it is intermittent. GL!